Effective members

ECIA effective members are national professional organisations of interior architects / interior designers whose objectives and activities can be described as follows:

• The member organisation is an independent professional body or a section of an umbrella-type professional association that is able to demonstrate that its constitution and statutes comply with the shared ECIA’s objectives.
• The member organisation has the primary objective to develop and promote interior architecture as a profession.
• The member organisation operates on a national level.
• The member organisation can demonstrate that it is endorsed and registered with relevant authority in its member state.
• The member organisation consists of individual members, not of societies or other collective bodies, working as a liberal profession.
• The individual members of a national organisation or its chapters are interior architects /interior designers and comply to the professional and educational standards as set in ECIA policy documents.

The effective members of the Effective Member organisation as individual interior architects / interior designers shall comply with minimum education standards as follows:

• 5 years of professional education in accordance with the European Charter of Interior Architecture Training (latest version) plus 1 year of professional practice in an interior architects or architects office, or as a self-employed interior architect, proven by employers recommendation letter and/or by portfolio

or

• 4 years of professional education in accordance with the European Charter of Interior Architecture Training (latest version) plus 2 years of professional practice in an interior architects or architects office, or as a self-employed interior architect, proven by employers recommendation letter or by portfolio

or

• in case of insufficient education, 1,5 year of professional practice is needed as a substitute for every year missed education, proven by employers recommendation letter or by portfolio and checked by an admission committee of the national organisation

Observer members are candidate effective members who do not meet the criteria for membership yet but who can demonstrate that they are taking all practicable steps to do so. The duration of observer membership upon admission is limited.

The overview below indicates the effective members and the observer members.